Topic: New 400 BTC Bounty Pales Roger Ver's 37.6 BTC Bounty for Return of Stolen BTC - page 14. (Read 18422 times)

I desire them to sue me first for libel, then and only then will I take action. To date, they have failed to follow through with their threat that they will do such, probably knowing that it's not to their best interest.

~Bruno Kucinskas

What is it about FRENCH GUYS and Bitcoin?

Karpeles, those Dealco guys out of HK, now these scammers

French Bitcoiner = AVOID

What if you sue them for fraud?
Wouldn't that start a legal investigation on the matter?

Foregoing allocating legal fees unless Paymium opts to sue me for libel, of which I'm on record stating that I would welcome such, stemming all the way back to April of last year. I'm opting to go the Roger Ver route, being that this is Bitcoin and all.

The settlement aspect is fair, thrown in for what it's worth knowing realistically that it may come to such via some sort of arbitration, albeit I'm not versed on how such works, but I can surmise.

Don't know exactly how others could help via acting as some sort of liaison, but hoping that maybe some chap close to Paymium's principals can put some sort of pressure on them, sans violence, of course.

Also, some more press on this would be welcome, hopefully bringing Bitcoin-Central to a halt, see that it's last of the Mohicans from all the VC moneys Paymium amassed with nothing to show for it but a handful of failed and hacked attempts at startups.

For I care, Lemon Way could go to the wayside as well, seeing that they're now affiliated with Paymium and I don't trust them.

Hope that addresses your questions and concerns, bud.

~Bruno Kucinskas

I never used Instalwallet, but I did keep an eye on how davout and boussac behaved during and after the incident because they are involved in other Bitcoin projects.

The way they handled the situation looks to me consistent with what I'd expect from scammers.

Honest people would show some signs of remorse and humility after losing so much of other people's money - they were arrogant and hostile instead.

PG, I am a little confused with the above part.

You will offer 400BTC and are willing to settle for $50K?
Is that what it says?

Also, how do you expect someone to get your BTC back for you?

For that amount of BTC I am sure you can find some sort of legal way to force conduct an investigation by someone (or more) with expertise on the matter.

It kinda occurred to me that Boussac may have been played by davout, but his actions at the onset of the InstaWallet fiasco are/were in-line with davout's.

Don't worry about the 1 BTC you sent to Bitcoin 100, for it surely will go to some good cause. I'm simply the founder of it, never ever having control of a single satoshi that passes through it. Not another person affiliated with Bitcoin 100 gets a single satoshi for themselves. Any moneys that any principals received came outta my pocket, most of which was also donated.

BFL. Please recall that I have dug up more dirt on them then all others combined, and kinda ran outta ammo, hence scaling back my attacks. I and bcp19 toured their plant, then went to a KC meetup that Goat put together. It wasn't till after I was about to leave the Meetup that Josh gave me a sub-par Single in the parking lot, of which I sold. Josh also reimburse my traveling expenses and one night hotel stay, even though I was on the road for over 3 days, opting to only turn in one night's stay, bunking with bcp19 (two beds, if that needs to be said). I was fair with the billing, of which Josh/BFL was kind enough to round up a tad, all of which I donated away, including moneys from the sale of the sub-par Single since I don't mine. In total, less than $600 I was able to amass outta $700-$800 trip expense, of which I'm pretty sure I donated over $1,500 during that particular time frame.

Apologies for bragging above, but wanted to put into perspective. But, I will brad a tad now: I've donated tens of thousands to date toward a couple local chapters here in Sandwich, IL, that benefit autistic adults, for I have a special place in my heart for them folks. Unfortunately, it's all in fiat. Currently, I'm negotiating a lease for a 5 bedroom farm house for the same group, but different adults, willing to pay two years worth of lease payments up front since the state is so strapped for funds. No apologies this time for bragging.

BTW, the above events you've stated took place from the later part of September, forward. InstaWallet's "hack" took place on April 1, 2013, thus that event and anything similar to the above that others may try to claim as some sort of bearing to some motive I may have will not cut the mustard because they're mutually exclusive.

That said, thank you so kindly, tvbcof, for your post.

~Bruno Kucinskas

I've watched the whole Instawallet fiasco like a hawk because I had some BTC in Instawallet.  Only a small fraction of my holdings, and what I could easily afford to lose of course, but it's a personal affront and embarrassing to me to get screwed by (likely) criminals.  I got my bitcoins back with the first round of payouts BTW.

Whenever these things happen there are a handful of people (probably) who will make dubious claims and a lot of noise hoping that the party responsible will find the path of least resistance to just pay them off.  In PG's case it seems that his story was relayed early and has remained the same through the well over a year that this thing has been in play.  That is not what one usually sees when someone is trying to pull a fast one.  I think the odds are quite high that PG's story and claim is completely legit.

PG has been his normal self and obviously very frustrated through this adventure.  Not always a model of diplomacy.  That still does not give davout and boussac a justification to steal from him IMHO.  Nor does the fact that it would cost them a fairly large chunk of change to do the right thing.  (BTW, I would not rule out the possiblity that Boussac himself is a victim of davout to some extent.)

In the interest of being complete, I do have to note that PG seemed to go through a brief but suspicious period of shilling for the infamous scammers at BFL (between rounds of being their worst enemy.)  I forgot about that when I donated a bitcoin to the 100 charity thing a few months ago.  Anyway, aside from that I've seen no reason to be suspicious that he wouldn't do what he says.  I would love to see davout have to cough up the 1300 BTC he very likely stole, and I'd love to see the details of the collection remittance disclosed publicly.  And the details of the extraction for that matter.  If feasible.

Nice bounty....I'm fairly new to this forum but read quite a bit about your quest to get your BTC back. Hopefully this will help.

Way to keep it interesting Bruno. I read the whole thing.

You could have added that you're a Nigerian prince and I'd still believe you

Good luck with this!

So did others using InstaWallet, but they were refunded according to tx records, albeit they could've easily been Paymium's own funds from their various money laundering enterprises.

You had that many BTC on a online wallet service sorry for your loss.

At today's exchange rate, the 400 BTC bounty equates to over a quarter of million dollars, or exactly $255,416 USD.

I prefer to use Rassah as escrow so that anybody who's entitle to the bounty would have an extra layer of trust to guarantee that they do get paid.

I will pay a 2% escrow fee (over and beyond Rassah's standard fee structure) outta my share to not lessen any bounty payout.

Ideally, I prefer to have the entire 1,132 BTC, sans the 400 BTC bounty amount, paid in full to me, but knowing that sometimes arbitration takes place, I'm willing to settle for a minimal amount, with anybody acting as liaison to broker their reward up to 100% of what I may finally recognize. The minimum I'm welling to settle for is $50K USD via BTC or fiat to compensate for my initial investment and the mega hours I have put into this fiasco, not to mention the stress.

I have played this game long enough in good faith, but Paymium, et al. actions, now lack thereof, leaves me no choice but to pursue this route.

I've stated this before, and will now do so again: Anybody having funds in Bitcoin-Central best get them out ASAP, for I have a funny feeling that they're about to be investigated for fraud and money laundering.

~Bruno Kucinskas

Reserved to announced that I have reunited with my lost investment.

Back story on how Roger Ver did it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2642600/Are-going-order-hitman-kill-Digital-currency-millionaire-known-The-Bitcoin-Jesus-turns-tables-blackmailer-placing-20-000-online-bounty-head.html


In the spirit of the above, Brock Pierce suggested to the person who had their bitcoins stolen to mound a similar campaign, thus amassing the troops, so to speak, so that at least one person could reap the reward when the stolen bitcoins are returned.

The amount of bitcoins stolen was 1,132 BTC.

The person they were stolen from was me, Bruno Kucinskas, a.k.a. Phinnaeus Gage on this forum.

The bitcoins were stolen on April 1, 2013, during the infamous InstaWallet "hack".

The person who stole the bitcoins is David François (David Francois), a.k.a. davout of InstaWallet/Paymium, et al. and staff on this forum.

The bitcoins resided in two URL wallets: 1,000 BTC here https://www.instawallet.org/w/rL2DhMWW9tDvs24oFwtiq99zhh7A3ii6bg and 132 BTC here https://www.instawallet.org/w/gZh1afVVl5aAtjNwXo0BiYChTxjwln33ab

I filed three claims at the earliest possible time, the other being for only 0.835 BTC. At first David François wasn't going to honor that claim in spite of offering up various proof that that wallet was indeed mine. The reason for him not wanting to do such is because he knew that the IP associated with that one URL coincided with the the other two URLs Paymium continues to not recognize.

At the onset of the InstaWallet fiasco, all three URLs didn't have a bitcoin wallet associated with the generated pages. It wasn't till after I brought it to Boussac's attention that the lesser bitcoin-containing wallet was well-document that it mysterious had the associated wallet address visible on the URL generated site. This is why they refuse to release the name of the forensics auditor(s) because there wasn't one (or more, according to Boussac), in spite of them saying they couldn't because of some fuckin' idiotic NDA clause.

InstaWallet is now officially off-line in spite of ~20K wallets yet to be refunded, with only >1K wallets returned to their rightful owners, in spite of all the principals of Paymium being refunded first.

It is well-documented that David François announced a week prior to the "hack" that he was going on vacation for a week, but not returning to this forum until April 18, 2013, leaving Boussac - Pierre Noizat - to start and man a InstaWallet claims thread of which is now locked in spite of still owing ~20K wallet claims, according to their estimates.

After hundreds of requests, David François, et al. has refused to name the independent auditors (plural, according to Boussac, singular, according to davout, as stated on this forum) that conducted the investigation, over and beyond what the French PD supposedly conducted.

I firmly believe that my 1,132 BTC is currently residing in one of David François' fat-ass bitcoin wallets, namely https://blockchain.info/address/16d1yGrEDqSY1xhCnAUWrkahGY2mkWdAYk, of which 1,384.35491053 BTC can still be found there.

The above address was amassed during the shutdown of InstaWallet and Bitcoin-Central, with the funds funneled to said address above via some sort of creative Bitcoin Money Laundering, i.e. one of the gambling bitcoin dice sites (not Satoshi Dice).

All three principals of Paymium have acted like assholes during the entire InstaWallet fiasco to their non-customers, a term they coined and used.

Boussac put me on ignore from the moment I entered the InstaWallet claims thread.

Davout now has me on ignore and ceased all communications with me.

Boussac was approached in Amsterdam prior to going on stage at the recent Bitcoin conference held there, and refused to discuss any of the InstaWallet claims.

Bitcoin-Central, owned by David François, is supposedly backed by a bank, when in fact it's back by Lemon Way, an app provided, who three days prior to the InstaWallet "hack" inquired on its Twitter account how to go about obtaining bitcoins, all the while being walking distance from Paymium's backdoor.

Details of the 400 BTC bounty can be seen in Post #3 of this thread, with Post #2 reserved for when I'm duly compensated.

~Bruno Kucinskas